multiple bangs for your buck

Rating: 6/10 (10 August 2005)

The Island is foremost a typically shallow film with so many explosions and crashes that it could literally give heart attacks to the elderly.
It's a film about the future of human cloning. It tries to answer the question of the possibility of it happening. When a man (Mcgregor) living in a quarantined centre after a supposed world war questions everything about his existence and the relative world, he uncovers some deep conspiracy that dangers his life.
Mcgregor and Johansson does an OK job in expressing their fear and determination to get back their lives into normality. Buscemi is the only one that seems to be enjoying his role. He brings his typical quirky humour that has made him one of the best supporting actors working in Hollywood. It's a travesty that he is not getting bigger roles in films and not just be the obligatory comic "sidekick".
Bay directs this film with so much bravura and zest especially in the action scenes to cover the missing plot holes and simpleness in the narrative. He is just going through the motions as this is the same type of film as his others.
If you like your films loud and fluffy, then this should be just your cup of tea. If you like them with more integrity and substance, stay away.